Pak’nSave Lotto lady Katie Tippler is heartbroken to have been made redundant, a casualty of the physical redevelopment of the Palmerston North store’s entrance.
After working at the Ferguson St supermarket for nearly 30 years, she had been forced to leave the job that she said was her world.
She left with no farewells, no redundancy payment and just the minimum two weeks’ notice that she does not have to work through.
Tippler, 56, has a disability, neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), a genetic condition that affects the bones and triggers the growth of benign tumours under the skin.
The way her foot would drop and cause her to trip prompted amputation of her lower leg nine years ago, and the fitting of a prosthetic leg.
